FALL MUM SALE-Sarah Thomas, Lauren Higgs and Alexander Pirolli, members of St Jude’s Youth Group, held a fall mum sale after Masses last weekend. The event helps support their National Catholic Youth Group Conference in Colorado.

The message Officer David Winsock wants the public to hear is ‘

Don’t Drink and Drive.’ It’s that simple.

And that adage was brought home recently with vivid reality to local police

personnel when a drunk driver sideswiped two cruisers, injured an officer

and kept on going!

This incident serves as a chilling illustration of the seriousness of this issue. Ptlm. Dave Winsock reports that

incident occurred on Friday, August 30th – the night of the most recent

DUI roving patrol.

He explains that Wright and Rice Township Police have worked together over the last five years to operate

DUI enforcement efforts, “

This partnership allows us to cover more territory by working together.

“There are two varieties. One is a checkpoint which is stationary, where we

take one section of a roadway with plenty of room and stop the vehicles that come through. It’s an educational

thing to make people aware that we are conducting a checkpoint

and make sure that people are

driving safely and not creating a hazard to other drivers. “The main focus is to educate people

on how to be safe on the roadways, and the risk of drinking and

driving. And we educate people as to how to identify a drunk driver. We

hand out pamphlets and tell them if they see a vehicle that is all over the